A Russian Ookami, A Goat, and A Neko walk up to A Gate..

[Dust]

Volk has been walking for a while now, about 40 minutes, and hasn't done much than attempt to reach his new goal of on of these dots on the horizon. The muscle in his skull has been busy away with questions, answers, and riddles. But suddenly it was filled with one piece of information that had to explode from the contractor SW - 808's mouth. "Elaine!" That was her name. The young girl he and so many other kids had a crush on. The darling charm of her smile, and the way her eyes lit up..

He missed these sensations, but felt that he wouldn't have been able to appreciate this had he not been turned into a contractor. How frustrating it was to not know a name, the feeling of it right on the tip of his tongue.. The feeling of accomplishment and pride, while small, of finally remembering something you've long forgotten..

Even the pain in his heart that he was the only one that might have cared that Drake was gone.. How little that mattered when he was gone from that world too. At that point he wondered what happened to shock. He heard her voice when he was in and out of consciousness on the train. He thought he heard her humming at one point, felt her petting his shaggy hair. Or so he thought. Maybe that was just him dreaming.

As contractors he didn't have dreams, but he didn't have emotions either.. And yet, here he was celebrating that by testing them out with past unique instances. He never thought much of how he’d been tossed into a world he hadn’t much knowledge of.. And while that sounded strangely familiar given the Omni situation, he meant the day he was grabbed once upon a time when he was but a pup..

This made Ookami look down at this hands again, was he just a human? He could only know if he tried..